agile coaching

Important tasks of an agile coach

• An Agile Coach moves through the entire organization. The coach helps management to shape the transformation and coaches them on agile leadership. The coach also involves supporting departments in the agile way of working. Agile teams are coached towards maturity in the field of self-organization and ownership.
• Communication between and with the different departments and teams is an important task of the Agile Coach. For example, an Agile Coach supports the Product Owners and managers in stakeholder management. Different stakeholders have different interests that all have to come together.
• Good Agile Coaches know how team dynamics and personal preferences influence collaboration. They inspire and motivate mutual cooperation to move from agile working to agile thinking.
• Including employees and layers of management why certain changes are needed is crucial. The Agile Coach helps to increase agile awareness and urgency. The coach is an ambassador of the goals and benefits that the organization has in mind with agile.
• A good Agile Coach acts at all levels and across the entire width of the organization. The coach connects, challenges, stimulates and coaches on ownership. An integrated approach in the field of culture, processes and structure is important here.

The different levels of an agile coach

Agile Coaches work at different levels. To start with, there are the teams and the individual team members to guide and coach. A coach on a team level takes people along in agile thinking and working, creates enthusiasm, also coaches on a personal level and works together with the team to increase their agile maturity.

A good coach helps teams and organizations from being agile to being agile!

Helping to get involved in the external environment is another focus area of ​​the Agile Coach. An organization always works together with external parties. The collaborative working methods change during the agile transformation. It helps if the Agile Coach also acts at an organizational level, whereby the organization is looked at from a helicopter view, so that separate teams and parts work together. As a result, as much value as possible for the customer is delivered.

The skills of an agile coach

A good Agile Coach has knowledge of and experience in guiding agile transformations. In addition, an Agile Coach easily acts and communicates at all layers of the organization. The most important thing is that it is an experienced coach. A coach focuses on the team dynamics and the growth of each team member by coaching on the agile mindset and culture.

Agile transformation and culture

Whether it concerns a large or small organization, an Agile Coach supports every kind of transformation. Precisely because the transition is made by people, it is important to create the right motivation and to convert resistance into decisiveness and enthusiasm.

The culture is the determining factor for the transformation to succeed!

The more attention the aspects of agile mindset and agile culture are given from the start, the greater the chance of a successful transformation.

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